Clothes-drying frame



May 19, 1925. 1,538,185

F. e. HARVEY ET AL CLOTHES DRYING FRAME Filed Aug 31 1921 Patented May19, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK GRANVILLE HARVEY, OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, AND CHARLES OCONNOR,OF AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND,

CLOTHES-DRYING FRAME.

Application filed August 31, 1321. Serial No. 497,156.

To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that we, FREDERICK GRAN- VILLE HARVEY and CHARLES OCoNNoR,subjects of the King of Great Britain, residing at Sydney, in theCommonwealth of Australia, and Auckland, in the Dominion of New Zealand,respectively, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Drying Frames, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that well known class of clothes drying framein which a number of radiating arms are mounted upon a central pillar soas to be capable of rotating thereon in a horizontal plane, and whicharms are connected by means of clothes lines stretched between them soas thus to provide for the suspension of the clothes thereon, for dryingor airing purposes.

The invention has been devised with the object of providing an improvedconstruction of device of this nature, by means of which the readyrotation of the frame is ensured and by means of which also, the arms ofthe frame are kept firmly stayed against any drooping at their outerends.

The features of construction characterizing the invention areillustrated in the accompanying drawings and will be hereinafter fullydescribed in relation thereto.

In such drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of the complete frame, a minorpart being broken away.

Figure 2 is a plan of the central part of the frame.

Figure 3 is also a plan of this part, but with the stay superstructureremoved.

Figure 4 is a detail sectional elevation on an enlarged scale, showingthe means for and manner of mounting the arms upon the pillar.

According hereto a vertical pillar A of the requisite height is providedand suitably stayed to the ground or embedded therein to make a firmstructure. To the top end of this pillar a circular supporting plate Bis fastened, such plate being of approved area. A journal pin C is fixedto extend vertically upward from the centre of this plate, such pinbeing, if required, made integrally with the plate and being screwthreaded at its top end. A, bearing ring or collar D is then fittedaround the pin to rest upon the plate, and this ring is formed with aball race cl in its upper surface and concentric with the pin, in whicha number of bearing balls E are arranged.

A hub or collar F is provided and formed with a number (four are shewnin the drawings) of sockets Gr radiating therefrom at equidistantpoints. Each of these sockets is constructed to have the inner end of anarm H of wood or other approved material fixed within it, so that thesearms then radiate outwards from the hub to any required distance. Theclothes lines (not shown in the drawings) are then stretched from onearm to the next in parallel rows all round the frame in the manneralready well known,

The hub F is formed with a central bore adapted to pass over the journalpin 0 so that when thus mounted on the pin it will rest on the ring ofballs E and will thereby be free to rotate upon such pin. It is retainedfrom lifting and also from tilting to any side by means of a collar Jfitted loosely over the pin, and resting on the hub, and itself held inposition by means of lock nuts 0 screwed upon the upper end of the pin.It is preferred that a ring of antifriction balls shall lie between thehub and the collar J, and for this purpose a ball race f may be formedin the top surface of the hub to receive such balls, as shown in Figure4.

The outer ends of the several arms H are stayed from dropping by meansof stay wires K extending from the outer extremity of each arm upwardand inward to the top of a stay frame fixed above the top end of the pinG. This frame is formed by a vertical bar M and four brackets N that arefixed respectively to each of the arms H and to the bar so that it isthus held rigidly in its position and acts as a firm stay to hold theinner ends of the several stay wires that are attached to the upper endof the bar. Each of these wires is provided with a turn buckle O ofordinary construction arranged within its length to permit of it beingtightened as required.

e claim In clothes drying frames of the class herein described, thecombination with a central pillar, of a horizontal plate fixed to thetop of the pillar and having a journal of the said vertical bar,substantially as pin projecting upward from its centre, a specified.rotating frame having radiating arms In testimony whereof, We aflix oursignamounted to rotate on said journal pin, tures.

a means for retaining it in position on the FREDERICK GRANVILLE HARVEY.pin, a bar vertically dlsposed above the CHARLES OCONNOR top of the saidpin and secured by brackets to the several arms of the rotating frame,Witnesses for Charles ()Connor: and a stay Wire extending from the outerDAVID BROWN HULLON,

in end of each of such arms to the top end W. H. MOCOMBIE.

